People getting stuck in a cycle of comfort food doesn’t just happen at the table. Since the advent of cable, the TV equivalent of comfort food, reruns of Law and Order, Seinfeld, and the like, suck in viewers who’d rather have something predictable and familiar. Traditional television viewers weaned on “57 channels and nothing on” can be forgiven for surrendering to the easy comfort of syndicated programming, but it’s a bit less defensible in the streaming age....

It only made sense. Despite antibiotics and advances in medical research, new dread diseases continued to crop up on an annual basis, each one threatening (for a while there anyway) to become a pandemic that could wipe out millions. In recent decades, none of them had killed more than a few thousand people, but the threat and the fear were a constant presence. There was swine flu, various incarnations of bird flu, SARS, West Nile Virus, mad cow disease, Hantavirus ,superbugs, and Ebola....

The Orville Season 1 Episode 7 Okay, now you’re trying too hard, The Orville. Maybe for those who haven’t seen the Black Mirror episode, “Nosedive,” “Majority Rule” was an innovative satirical look at our social media obsessed culture, but even those seeing this idea for the first time might wonder if the nearly identical planet to Earth was a bit too on the nose. The tension of Lieutenant Lamarr’s ordeal was authentic, and plenty of the jokes landed solidly, but taking the story planetside makes it seem like this was an existing script adapted to the template of The Orville....

With guests including Patton Oswalt, Margaret Cho, Amy Bruni, and even your truly, Ghosted! maintains a balance, which fits just perfectly for her. After all, before she became known as Roz Drezfalez, she grew up in a potentially haunted house, as she revealed in an episode of Den of Geek’s paranormal podcast show Talking Strange (available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube). “I grew up in a house I believed to be haunted, and grew up with a belief that that kind of thing is possible,” she says....

There was plenty to unpack in The Rings of Power finale. The jam-packed episode not only answered many of our biggest questions but also set up key events that will lead to the saga of The Lord of the Rings books and movies we know and love. “Alloyed” even introduced some actual Rings of Power — the three for the Elves that will soon be worn by Galadriel, High King Gil-galad, and Cirdan....

Lucifer Morningstar is a frequent dark guest of Western culture, with depictions of the fallen angel stretching back to Biblical times and even before that in elemental forms. In Neil Gaiman’s hallowed comic The Sandman, however, Lucifer is a little different from his usual representation. The Sandman‘s Lucifer is bored of ruling hell for billions of years and he’s about to make that boredom everyone else’s problem. Funnily enough, Netflix already has played host to Gaiman’s version of the devil, having produced the final three seasons of the Tom Ellis-starring Lucifer (formerly of Fox)....

The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 2 In order to stay relevant in the present, The Simpsons’ season 32, episode 2, moves back to the past. History has a way of repeating on itself, as does The Simpsons, and “I, Carumbus” is a cautionary tale, twice told, if you watch it again on demand. Just like the often-misinterpreted “Revelations” of The Bible was actually about Emperor Nero, the tale of Obesius and his son Bartigula, is a warning shrouded in the mystery of parable....

The Simpsons Season 34 Episode 1 It’s a conspiracy. The Simpsons season 34 premiere finds middle ground on a very divided topic, follows a twisted story line with single-minded concentration, and still can’t see what’s right in front of them. “Habeas Tortoise” works better as a satire than a comedy, even as it hits every comic beat. The premise is simple. Someone, or some ones, stole Slow Leonard, the Springfield Zoo’s longest-running, slowest-moving attraction....

If that sounds a little confusing, well, it is. The 2016 origin movie, directed by David Ayer (and subsequently recut by the studio), was a massive box office hit with $747 million worldwide in its coffers when all was said and done. But critics and even fans were less positive, despite the movie being one of the DCEU’s most lucrative, so Warner Bros. abandoned plans for a direct sequel and eventually corralled Gunn — fresh off his then-dismissal (subsequently retracted) from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

To recap, a young woman is found dead, stabbed 21 times (it appears she has stabbed herself, or been forced to stab herself), buried in a shallow grave in a cemetery. Either by coincidence, or for nefarious reasons, O’Loughlin talked himself into a job consulting on the case by muscling in on a meet up between young Detective Devi (Anjli Mohindra) and some sex workers he’s pals with. Then once he’s brought into the morgue to see the body, he claims he doesn’t recognise the woman and yet sneaks back into the room by memorizing the code, foolishly (we guess) assuming a police morgue wouldn’t have CCTV up the wazoo....

The Walking Dead Season 10 Episode 17 The Walking Dead is not a show that can be described as “free from issues.” Since the very first season, the series has made a habit of introducing a group, only for that group to self-destruct, disappear, or die, either on screen in the case of the prisoners from season three’s West Georgia Correctional Facility, or off-screen in the case of the eponymous Vatos from season one’s “Vatos....

The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 3 “Hunted” opens in a flurry of action. Blades and arrows come flying in out of the darkness. Most of Maggie’s companions stumble and fall, as do their hunters. Some get back up and scramble away towards safety, or in pursuit of someone. Most don’t. At least, not until they presumably turn into walkers and join the omnipresent background noise of the undead. As far as cold openings go, this one runs hot, and while it burns itself out quickly, it’s a perfect set-up for the following episode, which features The Walking Dead in hunting mode for both the A plot and the B plot....

In the Prime Video adaptation of The Wheel of Time, the character of Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) takes center stage as the wise woman tasked with finding the Dragon Reborn, the reincarnation of the only one powerful enough to defeat the darkness that threatens to destroy the world. “I didn’t choose this path,” Moiraine says in the trailer, “but I will follow it.” That journey takes her to the town of Two Rivers, where “the old blood runs deep,” increasing the likelihood of finding the fated hero she’s looking for....

Various complaints have been leveled against the movie, which owes more than a small debt to Alfred Hitchcock – not an easy comparison to weather – including that the characters are hard to care for and the plot comes so thick and fast as to be beyond implausible. While in many ways, it is pointless criticizing a film for what it’s not, recent trends on the small screen suggest that this story would’ve just been better as telly....

As per Deadline, Burton and MGM TV, which owns the movie and television rights to the characters, are shopping around a live-action television reboot of The Addams Family, which would include Burton as an executive producer (a first for the filmmaker) and as director of possibly all episodes. Additionally, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar of Smallville fame are lined up as showrunners who will lead the writer’s room in addition to executive producing the project....

If you feel that writing CSS is like fighting monsters in a tar pit, you’re not alone. While CSS is one of the most fundamental technologies powering the Web, it’s not a proper programming language or framework per se. As a result, as soon as your project starts growing more prominent, so does the mess — the selector rules seem to be all over the place, and it’s hard to find what’s where; as you include fonts, external CSS, JS, and other assets on your pages, the final size of the bundle seems to grow out of hand, and you wonder where the ideals of fast, user-friendly front-ends got lost....

Investments are all about strategy. While it’s easy to follow the conventional methods, trying times ask for unorthodox planning. However, you won’t call Fine-Wine Investing anything offbeat or radical after checking this out: So, fine wine presents itself as an excellent alternative to global equities. Even some real estate investments look pale against it. Here are a few more reasons favoring fine wine as a perfect investment opportunity: Great Returns Depending upon the brand and the scarcity, it can have exceptional returns....

What are personal budgeting and personal budgeting software? Budgeting refers to the creation of a plan for how you will spend your money. It simply means how you balance your income and expenses. If your costs are not balanced and you spend more than you earn, you have a problem. Many people don’t realize that, and they spend more. They save less than they make and sink deeper into debt each year....

Survive the Night by Riley Sager Type: NovelPublisher: DuttonRelease date: June 29 Den of Geek says: Thriller bestseller Sager returns with the pop scares of the summer. Publisher’s summary: It’s November 1991. Nirvana’s in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Buy Survive the Night by Riley Sager....

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel Type: NovelPublisher: KnopfRelease date: April 5 Den of Geek says: Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven introduced a beautiful new voice. Her novels intertwine with each other, but also work as poetic science fiction stand-alones. Publisher’s summary: Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party....